Sure as autumn leaves turn color and fall is the inevitable political debate season now upon us. If you are old enough to remember the Kennedy…
RALEIGH — According to the latest jobs report, North Carolina’s headline unemployment rate fell to 6.5% in August, down from 8.5% in July. Goo…
In a "Peanuts" comic strip, there was a conversation between Lucy and Charlie Brown. Lucy said that life is like a deck chair on an ocean line…
What is more interesting than the upcoming debates between candidates for major political offices?
The cool snap has reminded me of getting ready for winter at Oaklawn.
Daily, we see the disruption caused by the coronavirus, as business owners, educators and those in various sectors of public service are force…
“But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered.” (Rom…
I have bad news and good news. The bad news is that if your household does not complete the census by Sept. 30, you can be fined $100. Why wou…
Scott Hollifield is editor/GM of The McDowell News in Marion, NC and a humor columnist. Contact him at rhollifield@mcdowellnews.com.
My parents and I walked down the hospital corridor to the room where my Grandpa had taken his last breath of life. Our purpose was to say good…
On Wednesday, I got a barrage of notifications on my cellphone. It would buzz, pause, buzz, pause, and buzz again. I was in the middle of a jo…
North Carolina is facing an education crisis. The dilemma is easily understood, but not so easy to resolve: How to educate students in a pandemic?
RALEIGH — I have repeatedly criticized Roy Cooper’s troubling efforts to amass power in the governor’s office at the expense of other elected …
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is Part 3 of a series on faith and politics leading up to Election Day 2020, coming Nov. 3.
Like most senior citizens, Barbara and I have been limited to the house most of the time, looking for activities to keep us entertained. Part …
I hope the statute of limitations has run on any of my violations of the Hatch Act and campaign contribution limits during the unconventional …
As a school kid, if I tried and failed at something important to me, my dad would usually say, “So, what have you learned from this?” I could …
“Then the serpent said to the woman, ‘You will not surely die. For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you w…
Now that Joe Biden has acknowledged the violence occurring in major cities nearly all summer, we can all breathe a collective sigh of relief, …
I was recently asked, “Robyn, what was the biggest decision that you had to make?”
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About halfway through lockdown, I deleted Facebook and Twitter from my iPhone.
One of the more flattering (and humbling) aspects of being a columnist is that readers will respond to you, often with thought-provoking comme…
A number of Northern California wildfires sent a thick, sometimes orange-glowing haze over the state Wednesday that left the Bay Area in an ee…
Early in my pastoral ministry I attended a memorial service for a Christian man. In the services the congregation sang "Amazing Grace." As we …
“White Christians are consistently more likely than whites who are religiously unaffiliated to deny the existence of structural racism.”
He had to tell me that my beloved Uncle Remus was not coming back — ever.
You surely recognize the name Frederick Douglass and know the major role he played in American history after escaping his enslavement in Maryl…
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